[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-8959) Bitmasks handling

["Lars Hofhansl (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-8959:
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Shouldn't that be a client side task? Or are you worried about the performance impact of reading byte[]s back, changing a bit and then writing them? Could do with a coprocessor endpoint (would be similar in performance to Append in that case).
                
> Bitmasks handling
> -----------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-8959
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8959
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Max Lapan
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I think it would be useful to natively support bitmasks in hbase columns with ability to check/set/clear/toggle individual bits in byte[] for any column. 
> Now, we forced to store lots of feature flags as separate, 1-byte values, which  is a waste of space. Compression helps, I guess, but anyway, not ideal.
> I see this as a set of new KeyValue.Type, which describes needed bit-operations. Operations itself performed on compaction or scan process. Similiar things a performed for KeyValue.Minimum and KeyValue.Maximum. 
> What do you think about this feature? Maybe, I'm missing something and it is much harder to implement than I think?

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